One of the pleasure of being a Candece reviewer is the surprise of putting on a review disc you know nothing about and beeing knocked out by it. I probably would never have bought this in a store, assuming I could ever find this Finnish release: For one thing, there's almost nothing on the outside of the package, just bright yellow cover with a couple of words on a spine and a sticker with six braille characters on the front. A very helpful hand-written note included with my review copy (thanks!) lets me know the band name Tunto means "sense" and the album's name Kevyt means "light" or "easy". But the music didn't need any explanation at all. An electronic stew of Jazz-like soloing over most upbeat dance rhythms with a backbeat and repetitive bass lines. As a fusion album, it's all pretty grooving, actually, with a surprisingly pronounced swinging feel to the rhythms whether generated by the bassist Jyri Terämaa's programmed beats or live drummer Petri Reinikka, who sticks to brushes on his half dozen tracks. Guitarist Matti Wallenius wrote all the music for the band, a trio with himself, reeds (Petri Heimonen) and bass (Terämaa) augmented as one or another song requires. There's an active sense of whimsy at work, expressed in the titles and in the incorporation of Rudy Merz's yodel in Swiss-titled "Müesli-musig". I hear definitive influence of of Frank Zappa's music, especially pronounced in the horn parts on "Evening music", and oddly enough, lots of echoes of the Residents around the time of Eskimo. All told, a real kick, nicely recorded and mixed by Terämaa to sound good loud. Word of searching by fans of adventurous fusion-oriented sounds. (Stuart Kremsky).